TEXTURED

textured, rough-textured, coarse-textured

(adjective) having surface roughness; “a textured wall of stucco”; “a rough-textured tweed”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

textured (comparative more textured, superlative most textured)

Having texture, not smooth.

Verb

textured

simple past tense and past participle of texture

Source: Wiktionary


TEXTURE

Tex"ture, n. Etym: [L. textura, fr. texere, textum, to weave: cf. F. texture. See Text.]

1. The act or art of weaving. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. Milton. Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. Thomson.

3. The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.

4. The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.

5. (Biol.)

Definition: A tissue. See Tissue.

Tex"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Textured; p. pr. & vb. n. Texturing.]

Definition: To form a texture of or with; to interweave. [R.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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